The mayor of Fort Worth declared Go Purple day, the friday before the TCU vs Utah game, garnering some unexpected support from a photographer from the star telegram. The coincidental photograph, giving the mayor horns as he raises a TCU shirt actually got TCU and Fort Worth on national television, because of a remark made by Jay Leno. Good job Mayor Moncrief. We appreciate the free PR.

TCU is playing versus Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl on January 4th. Boise state hired a PR firm earlier in the year to garner support for their football team. TCU has not done that, but has received serious support from the Fort Worth community. This is only helping TCU and their road to a BCS bowl.

Macedonia’s Journalist Association has seriously condemned the violence toward the journalist. How would you feel if you couldn’t report the news truthfully without being assaulted in your country? What about teachers? in developing countries, journalists are almost in a teaching position, because they educate the public. How would it be if teachers were assaulted for doing their job.

This is an example of a journalist doing her job, and revealing dangerous people in order to help the public and make people aware of illegal activities. The police is trying to keep her safe, but who’s to say something won’t happen, since it seems they can not control these extremists.

This woman has done what all journalists originally set out to do, and end up losing track of; She has gone out and gotten an important story, done her research and exposed who deserved it.

This is not to discourage journalists, this is to encourage actually. Whoever becomes exposed in a story fears the journalist because they are right and they have found good information. This means the journalist did their job. But at what point should this government realize that it doesn’t help the growth of their country to allow extremists to control and manipulate the law?

What do we think of this? is this a good idea? Should the public be more involved in news or less? Will they trust this web site more, because there are more people like them reporting on the news or will they trust it less because it won’t be from professional journalists? we’ll have to wait and see. I think this will either be a great success or a huge fail.

Hal Turner is going to trial for threatening federal judges, according to the New York Times. In this bizarre case, Turner claims to have been paid by the FBI to blog in an anti-terrorist act.

Blogging has always been an issue, are they real reporters or are they just people with thoughts, how is the writing, is this legitimate? Many questions have been asked and it continues to be a debate.

Did the FBI really pay him? if they did, shouldn’t he have some sort of protection from prosecution? Is it right for him to be prosecuted, when his intent was to assist the government? When will it be proved?

Some people actually take on-line posts into consideration and cause physical harm to others who are being discriminated against on-line. This is a classic example and even if he was helping the FBI, is it alright for a public figure to promote harm? Should the Internet be used for things like this? When should there be a limit to what can be published? Would it be ethical to limit the Internet?

The United States isn’t perfect and sometimes, the media get involved where they have no business getting involved, but they are called the Fourth Estate for a reason. They have the ability to speak freely about the government and inform the public about political happenings and decisions made by the president.

There are now rumors of corruptions swirling around Hungary because of these actions. Shutting down the press only makes what you are doing even worse. Shutting down the press is like personally calling the police while committing armed robbery. It raises questions.

It is really disturbing to see this happening to often this year, it also occurred in Honduras earlier this year. Clearly the government is either losing control or the people are upset with the administration and they are trying to cover it up. How can governments be allowed to do this? But at the same time, maybe the United States is the odd one out, since it appears not many countries are on the same page?

Although most of the time, the Woods family is very discrete, recent actions have triggered a sincere interest in the family from the media. One incident is going to ruin the wall of privacy the Woods family has managed to erect. Is this right? Does the media have the right to go barging into their life because of one incident?

The article mentions rumors of an affair. This affair was reported by the National Enquirer. This is sensationalism at its best. Form your own opinions about this. I don’t think it is right for writers to automatically assume after one issue, and the only public issue for this family, that Tiger is having an affair. This is the kind of reporting that shouldn’t be tolerated. Yes, if the police report is released and Tiger Woods’ wife is responsible for harming the golf star, then by no means should a reporter hold back, but linking a rumor with a car accident and going off the bend is by no means necessary.

How do serious writers feel about sensationalism? How does this story relate to Jon and Kate’s much publicized dilemma? Should speculations be published?

The Army fears it will turn into a political debate or a way for Palin supporters to voice their concerns with the current president. They want this book signing to remain just what it is. Are they trying to minimize tension between Obama supporters and Palin supporters? or are they trying to reduce the amount of people? Is there fair to Palin? or is it the right thing to do, and the safe thing to do?

Granted, the base is a completely different jurisdiction concerning the meeting but does that mean that what events go on there can be secluded or not covered by journalists? How should the public feel about that?

The reason why football is relevant to journalism in this case is because Boise State actually hired a PR firm in order to make their school more popular and to make sure they were getting plenty of exposure. This was in order to sway the decision as to who would be the non-BCS contender for BCS bowls.

If the team isn’t good enough to get votes on its own, then it obviously doesn’t deserve to be the team chosen. The school also said once TCU beat BYU then their focus changed to getting a bid to a good bowl, but this was probably only to save face for hiring a PR firm to begin with.

TCU’s football team is the university’s PR firm. They have given TCU much more coverage then previously received and have created such hype amongst sports fans and people in the nation alike. Football may be just a game to some people, but its a pretty big deal to Fort Worth.

Universal studios made the decision not to include the black couple in their posters for Couples Retreat, a recently released movie. Their company claims “colored” actors do not do as well overseas as they do in the United States.

Is this right? Should they have just released this film in stores in a few months and not done this? Is this okay, because traditionally international markets are more racist and they are only doing what they need to do to capitalize on their film? I think this shouldn’t have been an issue. The company said they will not do this for other countries’ release but they never should have done it in the first place.